This is why I have said that the stimulus dollars need to go to middle milte build outs. Wireless as a last mile medium is very well understood and gives best bang for the buck in a lot of scenarios.
Justin Wilson wrote: > I think part of the issue is economies of scale. Many rural ISPs have > T1s and T3s at best. The cost of transport and bandwidth doesn¹t allow them > to scale as well as they could if they had fiber or some other high capacity > transport. With providers such as Cogent well under $10 a meg in bulk you > can afford to up the speed (providing your network can support it) if you > have access to such things. > > I have seen several providers start offering better speeds once they had > access to a bigger pipe. I know in my area a T1 is still around $450 a > month. Get 4 bonded t1s and you are looking at $300 a meg. If you had > access to fiber and your transport + bandwidth cost you say $75 a meg you > could afford to up the subscriber speeds. > > Just my thoughts. > > Justin > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
